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Actigraphy assessment of motor activity and sleep in patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome and the effects of intranasal oxytocin.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The alcohol withdrawal syndrome increases autonomic activation and stress in patients during detoxification, leading to alterations in motor activity and sleep irregularities.
Katrine Melby   +5 more
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Actigraphy in brain-injured patients – A valid measurement for assessing circadian rhythms?

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2020
Background Actigraphy has received increasing attention in classifying rest-activity cycles. However, in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC), actigraphy data may be considerably confounded by passive movements, such as nursing activities and ...
Monika Angerer   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining Human-Smartphone Interaction as a Proxy for Circadian Rhythm in Patients With Insomnia: Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2023
BackgroundThe sleep and circadian rhythm patterns associated with smartphone use, which are influenced by mental activities, might be closely linked to sleep quality and depressive symptoms, similar to the conventional actigraphy ...
Chen Lin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wrist actigraphy in anesthesia [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie, 2001
To examine the use of wrist actigraphy during and following anesthesia or monitored sedation and its ability to objectively assess sleep-related events.Uncontrolled study.1100-bed tertiary care municipal, university-affiliated medical center.18 patients who underwent minor to medium lower-body surgical procedures with spinal or epidural anesthesia with
A A, Weinbroom, R, Ben-Abraham, J, Zomer
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Comparison Between Actigraphy Records and Parental Reports of Child's Sleep

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2020
Given the impact of sleep in several domains of a child's development, the comparison between actigraphy and parental questionnaires is of great importance in preschool-aged children, an understudied group.
Catarina Perpétuo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A machine learning model for multi-night actigraphic detection of chronic insomnia: development and validation of a pre-screening tool

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2021
We propose a novel machine learning-based method for analysing multi-night actigraphy signals to objectively classify and differentiate nocturnal awakenings in individuals with chronic insomnia (CI) and their cohabiting healthy partners.
S. Kusmakar   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Actigraphy

open access: yesIndian Journal of Sleep Medicine, 2007
Actigraphy is a methodology for recording and analyzing activity (movement) from small, computerized devices worn on the body. Published reports on the reliability and validity of actigraph measures, although not comprehensive, generally indicate that sleep estimated by scoring algorithms is relatively consistent with PSG-scored sleep for normal ...
Christine, Acebo, Monique K, LeBourgeois
openaire   +3 more sources

A comparison of actigraphy and sleep diaries for infants’ sleep behavior

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2015
Detecting the effectiveness of behavioral interventions to reduce infant night waking requires valid sleep measures. Although viewed as an objective measure, actigraphy has overestimated night waking.
Wendy A Hall   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring catatonia motor behavior with objective instrumentation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
ObjectiveCatatonia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome, with important psychomotor features, associated with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.
Sofie von Känel   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examination of wrist and hip actigraphy using a novel sleep estimation procedure

open access: yesSleep Science, 2014
Objective: Improving and validating sleep scoring algorithms for actigraphs enhances their usefulness in clinical and research applications. The MTI® device (ActiGraph, Pensacola, FL) had not been previously validated for sleep.
Meredith A. Ray   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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